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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-15

The Art Amateur for December con-
tainsa charming colored plate of PAN
sies," fine studies of "Holly and Mis-
tletoe" and "China Asters,n and page
of timely and useful suggestions for
Christmas decoration. The other de-
signs include beautiful extra size
classic figure (Hero)-the third of a
series of six panels for painting or out
line embroidery, an admirable arrange
nent of "Orange Lilies" for vase or
embroidery, O very pretty fish plate
decoration-one of a set of six; large
and bold design of blackberry wines
and fruit) for wood carving; three
musical cupids for tapestry painting, a
fine pomegranate altarfrontal and
superfrontal design with full directions
for treatment, and some pleasing diaper
motives for curtain embroidery.
Specially notable features are an excel
lent drawing of Knaus's "Holy Fami-
ly' in the Careerine Wolfe collection,
four delightful studies of children by
Lobrichon, and two pages of very at
tractive studies of furniture and inter-
ior decoration for the ordinary home.
There are valuable practical articles on
still-life paint dead game) and flower
painting in oils, tapestry painting and
artistic framing. The collector re-
ceives particular attention in new de-
partment call "The Cabinet" which
includes a fully illustrated articles on
japanese "Snuff Bottles" q curious ac-
count of COLLECTING in China" and
numerous interesting notes. The Me-
tropolitan Museum Exhibition, art in
RoSton Mrs WhenlnrtS show of am
broideries, and other current topics re-
ceive due notice, and "My Note Book"
bristles as usual with fresh and piquant
paragraphs. A special ILLUSTRATED series
of articles on the furnishing and decora-
ton of the average country house is an
nounced to begin with the January
number. Price 35 cents. Montague
Marks, "a Union Square, New York.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-15

The town of Wakefield, near Boston,
reports the birth of baby Weighing
only eight ounces.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-15

/ have had nasal catarrh for ten
years so bad that there were great sores
in my nose, and one place was eaten
through. 1 got Ely's Cream Balm.
Two bottles did the work. My nose
and head are we'll. feel like another
man G. s. McMillen, Sibley, Jackson
county, Mo.
For all forms of nasal catarrh where
there is dryness of the air passage with
what is commonly called ''stuffing
up" especially when going to bed,
Ely's Cream Balm give immediate re-
lief. It's benefit to me has been price
less.-A. G. Case, NJ. D., Millwood,
Kan. 2t
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BORN In A COFFIN.
A Sensational Muuchausen Story
From South Carolina.

I
COLUMBIA, 8. c., Nov. A-An ex-
traordinary occurrence isreported from
Summerton, Clarendon county. A col
ored girl, IL years old, who had been
i'll several days, died last Wednesday.
The body was properly prepared and
dressed for burial and placed In coffin,
the darkies of the neighborhood hold
ing their customary noisy wake" over
the corpse all through Wednesday
night. The funeral services were held
in the eolored church Thursday after
noon, and the body was to be inferred
in a graveyard about two miles dis
tant. When the cortege had reached a
point within five hundred yards of the
cemetery the pall-bearers were startled
by q crying noise, somewhat resemb-
ling the mewing Of cat, apparently
emanating from the coffin. The pro-
cession was halted and after considera-
BILE discussion il was resolved that the
coffin should be opened. Upon remov-
ing the lid it was found, to the great
CONSERVATION of the funeral party, that
a new born babe shared with her the
narrow bed. Several of the pall-bear-
ers and mourners were terror stricken
and fled. Those who remained, how
ever, ministered to the wants of the
once dead woman and her infant, and
in short time both were taken to 9
neighboring house, where they re
ceived kindly and necessary attention
At last accounts the mother was doing
well, there being every indication o
her complete recovery, while the infant
is hearty and robust, and is thriving as
well as any pickaninny born undel
ordinary conditions and circumstances
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-15

Elsie P. Buckingham writes to the
New York Evening Post of what has
been done by women farmers in Cali
fornia. She knows of one woman who,
on ten acres of land, supports family
of five comfortably, with something to
spare. Another woman she knows
netted 81 800 from four acres in peach
trees in one season.
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Adams Express Company.
Letter from the Assistant Foreman of
the Delivery Departmental
Subject in which Thou
sands are deeply
Concerned.


About Eve years ago suffered from painful
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part of my back pain in the limbs bad taste in the
mouth disgust at food and great mental and bodily
depression.
live at 24l York street, Jersey City, and on
arriving home one night found copy OF the
Shaker Almanac that had been left during the day.
read the article, "What lie this Disease that Is
Coming Upon Uss" 1t described my symptoms and
feelings better than could if had written whole
book. My trouble was indeed ''like thief in the
night" for it had been stealing upon me unawares
for years. sent for bottle of Shaker Extract of
Roots, or Seigel's Syrup, and before had taken
one-hah of it felt the welcome relief. In a few
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Itch, Prairie Mango, and Scratches OF
every kind cured in thirty minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no
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Eighteen months ago the State Treas
ury Of Texas was empty. On the 1st
inst. the official report shows 81 lbs, ,O0O
in it, of which $22O, 900 belongs to the
school fund.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

"There he comesi" thought Laura.
But it was not Norton, only a note
from him. And it read thus.
"LAURA: Eva and [ we're married
this afternoon, as fast as church, State
and Doctor Barbour could tie us. When
you thought / would lend myself to
such a deed, you mistook me, and
turned my heart from you forever. l
broke with you in earnest, and my be-
loved, good little Eva is now my wife,
in truth, not in jest, We wish you
well, and hope that in future you will
be more honest. NORTON DAVIS.
Poor Laurai She gave a cry, and
sank, half ~senseless, in her chair. She
had played with sharp tools-and cut
herself to the heart.
Laura snow fast growing into cross
old maid. And whenever she sees
Norton Davis and his happy wife drive
by, she thinks of the past, and vainly
wishes that she had been true and kind
like Eva, and never thought of playing
so wicked and heartless a joke against
the peace of an innocent girl. And
she knows that her punishment Is a
lust one.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01
The French Lucky Stone.


The talisman of Chariemange is in
the possession of the French empress.
Its pedigree is undoubted, having been
found fastened around the neck OF
Charlemange at the opening of his
tomb. 1t was appropriated by the town
council of Aix-ia- Chapelle, and by
them presented TO the first emperor.
He, In turn, made a gift of it to Hort
enSe, at whose death it came back by
descent to the husband of the present
owner. 1t is somewhat larger than a
walnut, the centre is composed of two
rough sapphires-which stone is said
to repel govt and ague and endow the
wearer with courage-a portion of the
Holy Cross and some other relics of
the Holy Land. These are lnclosed in
a fligree work of fine gold, set with rare
gems. A French journal while de-
scribing the talisman as la plus belle
relique Gel Europe" seems to hint
that the former good fortune of the
late Emperor Napoleon III may IN
some degree be attributed to the charm
of the great tallsman. 1t, however,
had not sufficient power to avert his
downfall and the triumph of the coun-
try from whence first came his tails
man; nor did it save the third Napo-
leon from ruin.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01
WOMEN OF CENTRAL soUDAS.
A Bevy of African Beauties---Dress
and JeweIry--Social Restrictions

The women of the household have
got over their lrst tremors, and come
to the conclusion that we are a good
natured and a harmless looking sort OF
fellows. at first they peep over the
wall or out of neighboring doorways,
till, growing holder, they venture in
groups out Of their hiding placesto see,
and doubtless to be seen. Not TO alarm
them, we take notes surreptitiously,
and observe that they make up quite
chronological collection of African
types. Fillani and Haussa women
from the neighborhood, Nupe aud
Yoruba specimens from the Niger dis
tricts, and others from the tribes of
Adamawa and the Benne region. Clearly
our friend is a man of catholic tastes III
the matter of women. His harem pre-
sents all kinds OF face and figures, from
the copper co1ored Fillani, with slender,
1.-the figure, well shaped face and posi-
lively beautiful eyes, to the shapeless
form, black skin, ugly face and muddy
eyes of the lowest negro type.
They are all dressed alike, with a
lower turkedi or cloth around the
waist, hanging to the ankles, a second
sheet wound round the body under tho
armpits, and a third worn in the varied
modes of a shawl on the head and
shoulders. The hair is gathered into IA
solid ridge of grease and hair, which
extends from the brow to the nape OF
the neck, something after the manner
OF the crest of a helmet. From each
temple hangs a kind of stiff love lock.
The ankles are adorned with enor-
mously heavy anklets of solid brass,
the bar being little short of an inch and
a half in thickness, the ends n
mented with neatly made polygonal
beads. Nothing better finished could
be turned out of a European workshop.
Round the wrist are placed several
more bracelets, not so expanslvely
made, but collectively so heavy that to
ease their arms the wearers are fire.
quently to be seer with hands clasped
behind the head or hanging down their
backs. Their ornaments usually in
clude a string of agate beads made In
the country. The women. unlike the
men, do not affect white colors, the
more fashionable cloths being checks OF
dark blue, a medium tint of the same,
white and magenta. Among those who
can afford expensive articles the latter
two colors are prevalent.
Strangers are not usually admitted
into the family compound, but it must
not be supposed that the women are
strictly kept inside and never let out.
Quite the reverse. In the evenings
they arc almost invariably left at lib
berty to wander forth and join in any
dance or Incorporating there may be
afoot, and | would not like to be re-
sponsible for the statement that their
behavior is always best on these occa-
sions. During the day, also, if any of
the women have anything to buy or
sell at the market there isno restriction
to their going thither. In the more
wealthy families, however, there is al
ways one if not two wives who are
kept in strict seclusion, and not infre-
quently eunuchs are employed to guard
the morals of the harem.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01
NEWS OF THE EEK

William Showers, who was ar
rested III Lebanon, Penna., several
weeks ago, on the charge of killing
his two young grandchildren, made a
confession on the 23d. He says EliZ-
abeth Sergeant, his house-keeper,
held a light In the children's bed
room while he committed the deed.
lie was arraigned in Court on the 23d
and pleaded guilty. The trial of Adam
Volkovitz, at Wilkesbarre, Penna., for
the murder of John Bioski, was con-
cluded on the evening of the 23d. A
verdict of murder in the first degree
was rendered. John M. Schuyler, who
murdered his infant child at Morris,
Otsego county, New York, about two
years ago, by dashing out its brains,
was on the 23d sentenced to be hanged
at Cooperstown, on November 10th.
AT Sylvania, Ohio, on the 23d,
Godfrey Anderson, IA years of age,
while carelessly handling a shotgun,
accidentally shot and Killed his sister
Maggie, aged IL years. He ''has been
tn commissions since the accident. and
is not expected to recover"
Every business place in Craven
burst, Ontario, was destroyed by fire
On the evening of the 22d. The loss
viii exceed $4,000. The insurance
is small. There are no provisions in
the town. Fish 81 Connell's barb
wire mill in Joliet, Illinois, was burned
ON the evening of the 21st. Loss
S25, 600, fully insured.
Henry Richter quarrelled with a
Iarty of colored men in Lawrence,
Kansas, on the evening of the 22d, and
was seen to fall. When picked up he
was dead, his throat being cut with a
razor. Thomas McKenna, 81 years
old, murdered his wife at their home in
McKeesport, Pa. on the 23d. After his ar
rest he said he had been contemplating
tie deed for years, but had refrained
uhtil his children had reached an age
when they could care for themselves.
He claimed that she was u%nfalthful to
him. Rev. Alfred Beddington, a mis-
sionary TO the Chickasaw and Choetaw
Nations, in the Indian Territory, was
shot dead by a man named Glassmore,
at the Iatter's house on the line between
the two Nations a few days ago. The
men had been close friends until Bed
dington began to ''pay attentions to
Miss Glassmore. He was warned to
keep away from the house, but did not
heed the warning, and was shot dead
by Glassmore as he was dismounting
at the gate.
The feature of the Blue and Gray
reunion at Evansville, Indiana, on the
23d, was q sham battle, which, it is
estimated, was witnessed by $4,000
spectators. The battle lasted an hour
and wrought the feelings of the vete-
rams up to the highest pitch. The bat
tie vas declared drawn when 0,00Os
rorfnis of ammunition had been ex-
hs,feed. Two men were injured in a
hiNvh to hand conflict over the possess
81 Il Ef a battery. One Rodgers was
K lied senseless with a clnhhad. rifle,
aOn dhn Lyman was burneislg sssHa
fla powder. but not seri%e;ly."
,,1e ChiIese residents OF San Fran
lad 2 parade on the 25d, Sin
Sa~t- oF - -~~~A :I~' i--~-- ~"
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01
NUMBER 9.

are valued at $1,000. Her other bag
| gage, three trunks and a packing case,
we're seized, but not opened.
"A passenger train on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad, while running at a
speed of 40 m les an hour was thrown
from a trestle bridge two miles south of
Jackson, Tennessee, ON the morning of
the 9th nit. The engine alone re-
manned on the track, the coaches being
thrown a distance of forty feet, and
some of them turned upside down.
Strange to say, no person was killed,
and of thirty three injured Ira Her
kins, the baggage master, ia regarded
as beyond recovery. Five of the injured
are severely hurt. One hundred Yards
Of the trackswas torn up and the trestle
was broken down. The causes as
signed for the disaster are 'breaking
of a truck and a bad track" Two
freight trans on the Boston and Al
bany Railroad collided at North Graf
ton, Massachusetts. Four cars were
tumbled down an embankment, and
fifteen were smashed up. Joseph Lohn,
brakeman, was killed, aud another
train hand was slightly injured.
BY the fall of a s~caffoldinE around
the Court House building, in Charles
ton, South Carolina, on the 21th ult.,
Contractor Kerrigan and seven cOlored
men were precipltated to the ground,
and all seriously, and several of them,
it Is feared, fatally injured.
DR.. Edward st. John, who was
indicted in Chicago for aiding in the
escape of McGarigle, has been COM
United to the County Jail. Two ill.,
dictments were found against him.
One accuses him of conspiracy with
Dell and Captains Irwin and Frear to
fleet the escape OF McGarigle, aud
the other is for perjury before the
Grand Jury which investigated the
case. DR.. st. John gave bonds in the
sum of $4,000 on both indictments
with William Fitzgerald, Mrs. Cope
land and paddy Ryan as sureties.
An investigation of the worth of the
bonds was made at the State Attor-
ney's office, and it was decided they
were not sufficient, and notice was
given that the security must be in
creased. As this was not done st.
John was arrested.
The wholesale liquor house of
Adams, Smith, Sherwin 81 Co, in
Chicago, was closed by the sheriff ON
the 9th ult. on an execution for SlS,-
800. The firm had a stock ON baud
valued at $3.50 900, but how much is
consignment and what is the firms
are not known. Car
81 Co, commission merchants,
New York, made an assignment on
the 9th ult. Liabilities, $194. 300; &C.
tual assets, Sl3 ,UO0.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

would remain in the mines until bel
-er fare and more humane treatment
were promised. 1t As said the guards
tired, wounding several colored men.
out this is denied. On the afternoon
Of the 23d ulJ., they shut off the ZEN
tllation and ON the oath ult., the con-
gicts yielded. The closing of the yep-
tilating shalt drove them to the mouth
Of the mine, and there they crowded
around the opening lighting among
for front places.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

With sorrow In her eyes of blue,
With trembling hands she slowly penn

With sorrow In her eyes of blue,
With trembling hauds she slowly penned
IT.
Tho little parting billet dottI
That conscience told her now should end
II.
TLose tete-d-tets along the shore,
1lIose g~ipsyinRs with feru-tlled basket,
Must Join the dear delights OF yore
Aud only live in memory's casket.
There never was a heart like Jacks:
He told his passion in his glances.
She sealed her not with scented wax,
But could not drown her dismal iancles.
When he should read his suit denied,
SO long the theme of idle gazers,
Size pictured him a suicide,
Aud shuddered at tho thought of razorsi
at last she slept-but not till dawn
Has blossomed through the ocean vapors'
jack conned her missive with a yawn
When he had red the morning papers.
He gave his beard a languld twirl,
And murmured as he sat a~-smoking
'STear-stained-B by Jovel-poor little girl
thought she knew that l was joking T.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

Those who were entitled to receive
gold medals at the Calcutta Exhibition
are Informed that they can have the
same upon payment Of 2l0 lbs. each.
If they do not desire to pay this sum
they have the alternative Of accepting
a silver medal. We wonder if some OF
the exhibitors at the Railway EXPOSE
,.ieaAa Chicago did not have a somewhat
'vsimik experience. An exhibitor can.
not TIE the greatest amount OF salts.
tactic in a medal which he is compelled
to pator.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

--E
trader. by the Indians on the 23d
is believed that Esklminzius' band
join the San Carlos Apaches and nj
"a force OF nearly 200 we'll armed
equipped hostile Indians. Ehespt
around Florence fear an o3E
'heli' seI
There was frost in the
around Lynchburg, Virginia.
evening of the oath, and it AT
that great damage has been nee
the tobacco crop, of which a I
yet in the field, Snow fell
Pennington, Maine, on the FL
of the 25th, covering the NJ
tops.
Two horses, drawing a
containing Henry Koehler. hisA
two nephews and two women,
Interchangeable on Lansdowr
near lGlrard avenue bridge,
phla, Pa, on the 25th. II
plunged over an embankment
of rs feet, and, though the
was demolished, its occupants
horses escaped serious injury.
Howard Stoyer, aged IL
accidentally shot 10y George
companion of about the SAM
Shenandoah, Penn, on the Ell
the 25th, and died on the M
the 25th of his wound. Will
tuIg died in Reading. Penna
evening of the oath, from the
having fallen into a kettle O.
which was boiling IN the va
house. he had been ware
ployed by the Reading RAJ
forty years.
"A despatch from Quebec
children OF a farmer, name
while playing on the lslando
on the oath, where the art
petition was held recently
shell alsd lit the fuse. Tbf
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

Charity is one OF the virtues that
always yea well and retain their lovli-
ness.
Two hitherto unknown songs by
Schubert have been discovered at En-
gelberg, where they have long been ID
the possession Of the Mayor,
The 30 tree of Amarapoora, in Bur-
nah, is about ALTO years old, and it
can be traced IN historic documents as
far back as lS2 A. ID. African aud
Californian specimens being computed
At 5,00e Gears, but there is no evidence
Il il.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

stable attempted to arrest a white man,
and was subsequently found dead In a
creek. The colored men believed he
vas murdered by the whites. 1t was
Nd that over 200 colored men were
der arms in Matagorda. The two
@eached the scene OF hostillties
b, with $50 men and it was
hat a fight was going on.
,ton Light Guards received
non to leave on a special
Columbia, in BraZorla
rted from Lynchhurg that
nth of the tobacco crop in
been ruined by The recent
Ilm from Danyllle, how
10 damage was done in
trict contiguous to that
from Winchester re-
there on the evening
hich vegetation of
sngers on the stea-
re, which, rived at
? 18th, " Miss NJ.
n dressmaker. When
| been placed on the
n of her trunks,
silk dress careIessly
l0or. Then she quietly
that had been under |
nded 1t To u man, who
1t in hls trunk, which
The move was seen
s, who seized the box
wOrna and man. The
four handsome hand
sses worth several hun
=. The dress that had
ewas lined with costly
and satin dress goods.
found that Miss Ken
silks, etc, to the value
sand dollars concealed
The goods discovered
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

upon an apple tree as on a cocoa palm.
And owners of plantations would prob
ably welcome any stranger, whether
two or four handed, who attempted to
steal their fruit, very much in the
same manner as they would with us.
fear that the story Of monkey useful
ness is exaggerated, not to say myth
s.Y
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01

Locomotion in MOROCCO.

Locomotion in and about Tangler
has not yet arrived at a state of abso.
lutte perfection. The human leg is not
an uncommon carrier, and those who
do not care to p~atronize that mode of
transit can use mules, donkeys aud
horses. The latter are not very good;
the mules are the best l have eyer seen.
The donkeys are mostly of a Spanish
breed, strong and untlring, and pos
sessing like the mule, that distlng-
uished trait in the hind legs which
charms the observer, provided he is
far enough away. With the excep.
tion of a few baby coaches there is not
a wheel in Tangier. Everything for
building, etc., is carried upon donkeys.
l have seen a donkey walking along the
Uneven streets with a barrel of petro-
leum, or of Portland cement, or with
an upright piano upon his back.
The Penn's Grove record., 1887-10-01
How the NJ

| Going ashore
our first visit wa
place to see VIII
upon. A better
wouid be hard
beef, goat, pork q
cents a pound, an
zeal fruits aboun
prices. Tied t0gt
great green liar
long, with brown
and vicious black
snapped at us lii
and when leased
1T like bull terrier
mas, whose deliclo
gerly eaten by {
like chicken, but
course conslderal
needed to make
stranger who shot
a stew. Farther
head and tail like
ligator and a coat
clad man of wal
Upon receiving a
promptly into a
being quite coyer
thus defed furth
an armadillo, also
erly stewed or roa
Monkeys 9 8
and the old schoe
elers making use
nuts from lofty tr'
at them and dodg
down in return,
watched the antic
poor brutes waltz
sold. The fact i
shy of their u
treat from clvilizs
Cocoanut trees do
require careful C
slant care, being
for ornament neal
il almost